Example sentences of "[pron] could have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 2 | And I think I , I would just needed to say the word and I could have been Provost myself but I did n't really feel that I would be able to control the council , I think that was my impression at this . |
| 3 | Would readers also know anything about the Art Quilt Co. , which could have been part of , or an offshoot of , Morris Bros ? |
| 4 | She gave Kate a quick appraising glance and a nod which could have been acknowledgement or approval and said : |
| 5 | He looked sort of sternly amused , if there was such an expression , and really rather imposing , and as he continued to regard her she saw there was a glitter in his eyes , which could have been amusement , she supposed , if one were very optimistic . |
| 6 | Each one of them could have been double-bogeys or worse ! |
| 7 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought for a minute you could have been Billy sitting there , ’ she said as she put the tea down on the desk . |
| 9 | There have been many Sir Johns , and you could have been Sir John yourself . ’ |
| 10 | So there could have been conversation I did n't pick up — scrambled by the radio . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 12 | I mean it was a very big operation , there could have been people alive in that plane , but er , as it happened , I , I think tragically they were both dead , but I mean , but people did n't know that . |
| 13 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 14 | Indeed , they could have been Hal and his rascally crew . |
| 15 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 16 | From here she could get a glimpse of the houses : ‘ luxury ’ newly-built bungalows , double garages , big picture windows , young trees , landscaped gardens with lawns so smooth and green they could have been carpets . |
| 17 | Jeans , but clean and spruce and I said I have a feeling they could have been police . |
| 18 | Despite the ten-year gap in their ages — Burt is 56 and Tom 46 — they could have been twins . |
| 19 | It could have been Hope 's unknowing repudiation of the popular notion of black people which fired my imagination . |
| 20 | ‘ It could have been Jane Pargeter , who was about to lose her job . ’ |
| 21 | It could have been Adam on your mind , I suppose , but I 'm beginning to think that there 's a little more to it than that . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Or it could have been Maggie Parkin — ’ |
| 23 | He says it could have been anxiety |
| 24 | It could have been Dan Dare in the nursing home . |
| 25 | I ca n't for the life of me see how it could have been Sheila Williams he was with … |
| 26 | It could have been Darwin himself who introduced Dr Benjamin Bynoe , the Beagle 's surgeon , to Gould . |
| 27 | It could have been Charity , though it looked suspiciously like ‘ Charlie ’ , which was the name of Mandy 's budgie . |
| 28 | She dreamt that she was searching for something glorious : it could have been money , it could have been love , she did not know . |
| 29 | It could have been Barak . |
| 30 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |